Bursts of earth and sand suddenly erupted from the ground, shooting straight up into the dark clouds that enveloped the Twisted Forest.

The ground of the Twisted Forest was pockmarked with countless holes of all sizes as a result of the eruptions.

Suddenly, the scent of the wetlands permeated through the Twisted Forest, followed by the gradual emergence of towering ancient treants from the holes.

These ancient treants were the very ones the King Nanlin had spoken of, representing the most terrifying element of the entire Twisted Forest.

It wasn't until they reached a height of more than fifty meters that the ancient treants ceased their upward growth.

Bare branches sprouted from their trunks, soon followed by the budding of tender green leaves and a myriad of colorful flowers—life was breathed back into the dried husks.

Upon seeing the dozens of towering ancient trees standing tall before him, King Wumeng was astonished. Then, he saw the ancient treants begin to run.

Unlike the treants he had encountered on the periphery of the Twisted Forest, which moved with their roots bound to the earth, these ancient treants were genuinely running on two feet, with footprints so huge they were unbelievable.

Dozens of ancient treants running together presented a spectacle surpassing that of ten thousand horses stampeding, causing continuous tremors within the Twisted Forest.

And their target was the warriors of the Crow Tribe who were coming forth, waving their swords and wreaking havoc with fire.

Upon witnessing the massive ancient treants' approach, the warriors of the Crow Tribe, who were previously in a state of bloodlust-fueled frenzy, stood stunned.

Only when the enormous footprints of the treants flattened their charging comrades to death did the warriors regain their composure.

"Ula la, kill!" the warriors shouted as they raised their swords, followed by the assault of millions of flaming arrows raining down like a downpour.

"Roar roar roar!" The ancient treants let out deafening bellows, swinging all their branches with great force and conjuring up strong gusts of wind that blew the incoming arrows away, reflecting them back toward the thousands of Crow Tribe archers outside the Twisted Forest.

The Crow warriors who tried to approach on the ground with swords were also blown away by the fierce winds from the waving branches and leaves.

Next, the ancient treants leaped forward, crushing hundreds of Crow Tribe warriors to death with their massive footprints in an instant.

"Caw caw caw!" At that moment, over ten thousand bloodthirsty crows arrived from the north, then accelerated towards the ancient treants, boiling the blood within their bodies to ignite themselves.

Again, the ancient treants swung their branches and leaves, attempting to use the wind their motions created to blow away the flaming crows.

However, only half of the crows were blown away; the remaining half dove beak-first into the thick bark of the ancient treants and set the treants' bark alight.

As the saying goes, trees fear bark damage, and the ancient treants were no exception.

When their bark caught fire, the ancient treants let out painful howls. The fire on their bodies originated from the crows' blood, and extinguishing it was not an easy task.

At that very moment, tens of thousands of crows from the east and west had flown past the towering ancient treants, attacking King Nanlin and the woman from the Purgatory Fire Pool by the violet lakeshore.

Seeing this, King Nanlin forced the Yin Qi Spiritual Power out of his body, surging towards the more than twenty thousand crows flying at him in the sky, and then that surge of Spiritual Power turned into a colossal fire, its reflection nearly covering the entire violet lake.

The woman from the Purgatory Fire Pool, meanwhile, raised her head and shot two bursts of bright yellow flames upwards directly at the crows.

In an instant, tens of thousands of crows were burnt to cinders by the two, and the acrid smell of char filled the surrounding air.

Quietly, King Wumeng lowered his head, his face adorned with a sinister smile.

After the fire faded, the charred corpses of tens of thousands of crows began to fall from the sky, landing around King Nanlin and the woman.

However, what King Nanlin and the woman did not expect was that the crow they thought had been burned to death unexpectedly detonated its body while falling from the sky.

In an instant, they were each enveloped in a huge cloud of blood mist.

This blood mist carried a deadly poison and would corrode human skin upon contact.

"Hahaha!" King Wumeng laughed heartily. Although he knew that King Nanlin and the woman would not die easily, at the very least, he could cause some damage to them.

His goal was merely to delay these two until the Dark Law King arrived so they couldn't take Chen Hao away. He was well aware that he was no match for the two of them.

After a short while, those two massive clouds of blood mist were scattered by two powerful forces.

King Wumeng saw that King Nanlin's face was bluish-purple, showing signs of mild poisoning, while the woman's clothes and the mask on her face were corroded to various degrees.

King Wumeng was quite satisfied with this outcome, although it fell short of the best scenario he had imagined.

"I almost forgot about you!" King Nanlin said sideways with a sneer, his tone still full of contempt as he glanced at King Wumeng.

King Wumeng smiled, feeling that laughter was the best response at this moment.

Suddenly, King Nanlin turned into a shadowy figure; he had finally made his move.

King Wumeng frowned, his eyes rapidly tracking King Nanlin's advancing figure.

When he locked on to King Nanlin, what he hadn't anticipated at all was that King Nanlin wasn't attacking him, but rather the mysterious woman.

He thought that having just poisoned King Nanlin slightly, King Nanlin would certainly seek revenge against him.

Like King Wumeng, the woman from the Purgatory Fire Pool was also taken aback by the turn of events. So when King Nanlin approached, she was slow to react.

By the time she tried to dodge, it was already a step too late. Her left shoulder was struck by King Nanlin and she was sent flying tens of meters. King Nanlin pursued aggressively, launching a series of strikes at her. Since her body contained the blood of the Firebird and Azure Bird, no flames could hurt her, so King Nanlin could only use his Wooden Sword to stab at her.

With every thrust of the Wooden Sword, the woman could feel a cold Yin Qi surrounding the blade. She was busy dodging, while saying, "I really didn't see this coming!"

King Nanlin sneered, "He is not worth fearing at all, but you could pose a threat to me, so naturally, I must kill you first!"

Hearing King Nanlin say this, King Wumeng, standing to the side, felt very dissatisfied and upset.

"You are underestimating me again!" King Wumeng said sullenly, then suddenly leaped behind King Nanlin, striking out with his right palm.

King Nanlin turned around, his Wooden Sword stabbing towards King Wumeng's right palm at the same time.

King Wumeng did not move his right palm to dodge.

As the Wooden Sword pierced through King Wumeng's right palm, his entire right arm suddenly transformed into countless crows.

King Nanlin was taken aback!

Behind him, an incredibly intense flame was encircling him.

He turned around, and to his shock, the woman wearing the mask was unexpectedly…

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